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Rouen in December

avoid · not the best time to go · the wettest month of the year

The year in Rouen

Tap a month for its page

  1. Rouen in January: avoid
  2. Rouen in February: ok
  3. Rouen in March: ok
  4. Rouen in April: sweet spot
  5. Rouen in May: sweet spot
  6. Rouen in June: good, busy
  7. Rouen in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Rouen in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Rouen in September: sweet spot
  10. Rouen in October: ok
  11. Rouen in November: avoid
  12. Rouen in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
December at Rouen is 8°C by day and 4°C at night, with 13 rainy days and about 4 hours of sun a day. 8C max, 13 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high8°C
Nightly low4°C
Feels like, afternoon5°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more13 · 107 mm
Humidity89%
Sunshine3.5 h/day
Daylight8.2 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the old town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: quiet. Busiest from June to August; quietest in January, March, April and December.

Public holidays in December

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Rouen in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 4°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 13 rainy days and 107 mm.
  • Humidity averages 89%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and E plugs at 230 / 400 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for France: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Rouen: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

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